Monday, July 31, 2006

True!


If you've got that many singles, what the hell is the pointing of signing up?! Obviously the people already in the program haven't found anyone! And they've had, literally, millions of people to consider before you got there. So close the website, defrost that burrito and settle in to watch the Daily Show. Or, if you're still staunchly determined to find someone online and not settle for the bottom of the barrel, try a different service that doesn't advertise by announcing how many people haven't met anyone or need scantily-clad women to attract attention to their business*. Don't try MySpace, though. I hear they make it their business to pair up idiotic teenagers (pleonastic phrase?) and rapists.


*Are these people trying to set records with the number of attractive women advertising their site? Sure, Playboy may need advertising like this, though I doubt it, but does True?
Are they stipulating that if you use their services you'll find a woman like ones in their advertising? Not going to go off and do something suicidal like saying "women who are that attractive don't put their pictures on online-dating websites." Besides the fact that I'll be burned alive, I don't agree with that statement. I will, however, make a generalization and say that though super-model women do use these sites, the chances of finding one that likes microwaved burriots, the Daily Show and D&D in your parents' basement are very slim: not only do you have to find one, but you've gotta be a match.

Aside from false-advertising, you have to look who the advertising is aimed for. Try this at home: watch some show or channel you don't normally watch, like day-time soaps, and check out the advertising. You can tell who the companies want to sell their product to, who buys a lot of their product and what they watch. During "The Price is Right" there are a lot of commercials for inexpensive life-insurance: senior citizens really like "The Price is Right". Go figure. So, from the True commercials we know that the main target is white males ages 18-35. If you're a single white female age 18-35, this might be perfect for you. But if you're not, it means that you'll be paying for a database of people you wouldn't want to be dating. Better think again.

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